“Do not hurt them! They are the children of
Encharria, daughter of the Duke of Syria!” The handmaid cried. She
feared the loss of her masters who she depended on. As a female, her maternal instincts superseded the threat to her own
safety. Loyalty made her persevere. She was listed as Marcella, one of the
seventy nine passengers on board the ship without sails, rudder or oars that was
set adrift in the hazardous Mediterranean Sea from Jerusalem by non-Christians
some fourteen years after Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. With her were three royal
siblings. The man was in the military but was a personal friend of Christ. One
of the sisters visited Tiberius Ceasar in Rome three years after the
Resurrection bearing an egg on which was written “Christ is risen”. Tiberius
said that no man could have risen from the dead anymore than the egg in her hand
would turn red. It promptly did. She discussed the unfair handling of Jesus’
trial by Pontius Pilate. The latter was thereafter moved to a different
assignment. In the meantime, the Apostles left to minister in different
countries. By the time of arrival of the group in Marseilles, France,
persecution of Christians was intense. The pilgrims including Cidon or Sidonius,
the man born blind and led and baptized by St. Maximin. were allowed to
disembark but had to take refuge under the porch of a temple. They received no
offer of food or other aid from the local residents. Eventually, the people
started listening to the sister who brought the egg to Rome. In another account
of the same event, Marcella was listed as Sera. Perhaps her name was shortened
to Cella and later degenerated to Sera or some of the people only heard “They
are the children of Encharria, daughter of the Duke of Syria.”

Although the Holy Spirit entrusted the royal trio to
the care of St. Maximin and obviously guided them. floating from Jerusalem to
Marseilles was probably the natural fate of a vessel set to drift away from the
eastern end of the Mediterranean. The wind blows from North to West directing
the ship westward and keeping it in the straighter, wider, southern, lower half
of the sea. There is an abrupt drop in elevation of the Atlantic Ocean floor
right after the straits causing the Mediterranean to crash down like a waterfall
cascading from over the straits to the beginning of the much lower Atlantic
floor. This creates a rapid westward flow at the junction of the two bodies of
water. The warm Mediterranean aquatic temperature makes the water more saline,
denser and thus heavier compared to that of the Atlantic which is cold, less
saline and thus lighter and flows on the surface as the two specimens meet.
Mediterranean water flows outward to the Atlantic while the cold Atlantic water
flows on the surface inwards over the Mediterranean water. A warm undertow goes
outwards from east to west and a cold surface flow enters the narrow opening
between the two areas moving from west to northeast where there is more space.
Jets of water exiting from inland rivers help keep floating bodies away from
nearby shorelines. It is the turbulence caused by colliding circuits that can
cause navigation problems and increase the possibility of a shipwreck. Maybe
the ship was equipped with an anchor to prevent it from escaping before all the
doomed passengers and their Christian paraphernalia along with the body of St.
Anne could get on board. Then the anchor could be dropped or lifted as needed
to stop or go depending on the changes in direction of water current. Smuggled
ancient portable equipment and seafaring expertise may have also been
available. They lived in the shores of Galilee, home of gentiles and seafarers
skilled in navigation of waters prone to frequent and sudden violent storms
secondary to seismic and other underwater activity. The earth’s constantly
shifting magnetic fields and and subsurface tornadoes fool the eye of the
observer from land, air and outer space. Atlantis was in the area and
disappeared during a big earthquake. The Mediterranean was an enclosed inland
sea or huge lake as the Galilee is. Something bit off a piece of the brim of
the basin at the western end opening a gate to the Atlantic. Indeed, evidence
of ancient ruins were found recently close by between Crete and Santorini. The
maternal royal grandfather was once the duke of maritime places. The royal trio
may have been accompanied by contacts loyal to the family and provided expert
help. The sister who met Tiberius Ceasar traveled all the way ro Rome. She may
have recalled the course taken at least to that point.

By accident, choice or guidance of the Holy Spirit,
the royal siblings avoided Rome and Christianized France. The sister who
previously visited Rome eventually made believers out of the coastline residents
then moved inland to preach. The other sister went even farther into the
interior and opened a convent. The brother stayed in Marseilles for a while.
After St. Maximin’s death, he became the first bishop of Kition, Cyprus. While
he was there, he wrote a letter to the Blessed Virgin Mother mentioning how he
missed her. She replied and suggested that he send a ship. He did.

Her arrival was not as fast as his response. She
was delayed by a storm at sea. According to tradition, she and her traveling
companions, including St. John and other disciples, drifted away from their
course as far as Greece. She actually visited Mt. Athos where after converting
the idolaters, she invoked her Son’s blessing and protection for all those who,
in the future, were to “fight the good fight of faith” (as monks and ascetics)
on the mountain. She then sailed to Larnaca, ancient Kition. When she finally
showed up, she presented the royal brother with a white miter made from the
fabric that she herself wove. This was sometime in 50 AD plus or minus some
years. On her way back, she supposedly stopped in Jerusalem and stayed for a
while.

It was while in Cyprus that the
brother died and stayed dead. His sepulcher and relics are there.